Baldwin v. Drew

Defendant in error, Tom W. Drew, instituted this suit to recover of plaintiff in error, Jacob C. Baldwin, upon a promissory note for the sum of $390 and to foreclose a vendor’s lien retained therein on certain lands described in the note.

Plaintiff in error answered, admitting the execution of the note, but alleged that the consideration therefor had failed. He also pleaded that defendant in error claimed the land in virtue of a warranty deed from Tom Moore; but that Moore was insane at the time of the execution of the deed and because of his insanity that no title passed in virtue of the…